About Stacey Aviva Clark

Stacey Aviva Clark is a Jewish educator, public speaker, urban planner, and a doctoral candidate in Gratz College’s inaugural PhD program in Antisemitism Studies. She serves as the Director of Education and Community Engagement for the Jewish Federations of North America and is a lecturer in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College. Over her 25-year career, Stacey Aviva has focused on combating racism and antisemitism, fostering Black/Jewish relations, urban economic development, and strategic planning to build capacities around cultures of belonging and Jews of Color. She is passionate about shared humanity and the history of self-determination movements such as Zionism and Pan-Africanism. In 2024, she developed the Perspective Honoring Framework, a dignity-based dialogue model that has positively impacted over 150 participants.

Stacey Aviva is a nationally sought-after speaker, featuring her writings in The Forward and on her blog at the Times of Israel. Her Eli Talk, titled "Kahal Amim - Many Faces, One Community," has garnered 2,000 views. Committed to giving back, Stacey Aviva serves on the boards of Kamocha (an Orthodox Jewish organization serving Jews with Black heritage), The Hadassah Foundation, and Jewish Family Services of Colorado. She is also a member of the Jewish Life Committee for the Rose Community Foundation and the Advisory Council of Upstart and Global Jewry, the Advisory Board for the Nightingale of Iran Curricula, and the UpStart Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Stacey Aviva is currently a M2 Jewish Experimental Education Pedagogy of Peoplehood Fellow.

Check out my inquiry-based dialogue model, Perspective Honoring, for building relationships between marginalized communities.